House, M.D.

I get the point of House is to make people do things that humans never do to illustrate hamfisted pshychological points but still.

Aw I thought he was just being nice? Maybe she didn't know what bad moles look like?

IDK I also admit to a bias of totally thinking Talb is a waste of time as a character.

^agree w this; that strip club scene was entirely bogus. This season has been littered w/ little in-your-face reminders of why this is really one of the worst shows on TV

/bellyache

Do you watch TV?

House whiners should be forced to watch bravo until they eat their own poo

just sayin

I liked that redhead who dressed like she was in a vintage Archie comic, sad to see her go.

there aren't enough shows on tv about successful people who are miserable

I realize you are probably trying to be lol ironical but seriously when house is good it still does that better than anything else on network telly

I did like that redhead. My sister told me Amber Tamblyn was trying to play her as a person with Asperger's.

i am not being ironical, i want more shows about successful people who are miserable, like on this one. only maybe not so much like this season. although turning foreman and taub into losers is pretty good.

I think the thing is, when house does well at "successful miserable people," it does it by avoiding sappy "oh how poignant" HERE COMES THE MUSIC DADAAA moments

when house doesn't avoid that, its saving grace is the cast, mainly laurie

as time goes on, avoiding that sort of syrupy LOOK AT THESE SADDOES teevee bullshit becomes more difficult because after a while the whole cast of sociopathic characters who aren't genuine sociopaths (just fucked up one way or another, right) becomes harder and harder to believe or care about - eventually, enough humanity leaks in that you start writing any other hospital soap opera, and it stops being house.

I'm just hoping they manage to quit while they're still ahead and don't drag it out - however, the amount of sucking they would have to do to make me stop watching is a lot more than they've done so far (cf laurie comment above), and whatever replaces it is inevitably going to be worthless garbage in comparison.

I really think the piece with Talb getting irrationally concerned about the stripper's mole was realistic. People really do project their fears and concerns on to random stuff like that.

i'm just hoping that the writers don't have some asinine belief that the most challenging and artistically fulfilling thing for them to try to do is to bring it all home in the end and show that HE REALLY DOES CARE, HAPPINESS IS WITHIN REACH, etc.

I'm just hoping they manage to quit while they're still ahead and don't drag it out

defend the later seasons if you want, but seriously, it's too late for that

Here's hoping that House doesn't lose his 'freshness'

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wow, and i was thinking i'd watch the final season of house - even tho it had become horrible - out of acknowledgement for all the years of enjoyment it did give me. but charlyne yi tells me that it's time to let go.

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sad to have confirmation that they're gonna have him sitting back at his desk within 2-3 episodes, per youzh.

Check her teeth for toxins

I caught part of Paper Heart a couple of weeks ago on cable when I was sick at home, and it made me want to go out on a hipster killing spree.

I still like this show but her character is really obnoxious. Apparently House tries to get her fired next episode, I hope he succeeds. She has such a dorky, ugly voice, and I don't mean that in an endearing way either. Plus the character is deadly boring. Still I feel like I should watch this since its almost certainly the final season and I'm interested to see how they wrap it all up. Thought the episode where he's in jail was good and it kinda proved that the show doesn't really need any other characters.

they're really hard-pressed to exploit robert sean leonard's comic talents what with him having to constantly despise house's entire being

I just picked it up again after having watched the first five seasons. I used to love this show so much, but since the start of s7 it has gone really downhill. :-(

Fin

i thought that was pretty much foregone before the beginning of this season?

Hugh Laurie said he expects to retire from TV acting once the show goes off the air.

yeah i bet he does.

this new one actually seemed pretty good, after the lifeless first half of the season.

The last 3 or 4 seasons have been pretty dire. I suppose the Dibala episode was where it went from merely spinning its wheels into "actively bad" territory.

i'm pretty sure it became actively bad about 2 seasons ago

Series finale on Monday. Some pretty uhh...interesting developments the last two episodes. Kind of falls under "misery porn" at this point but there was a really gut-wrenching 'twist' at the end of the last one, as manipulative and stupid as it was, I dunno, I think you guys may want to see this

Haven't really followed this since, oh season 5 I guess, but I'ma get the complete 8-aeason box set when they release it (christmas probably)

i even thought there were a few worthwhile episodes in the previous season, despite everything, but in the current one they have pretty much run every single thing about the show into the ground. it's kind of instructive. i can't imagine that the last episode is going to make me think any differently. but i haven't seen this week's yet.

basically I'm just hoping for as crazy a finale as possible, something to justify keeping up with this show even though it really hasn't been good in years

like a lot of the storylines they've done lately have been kinda stupid, but they usually lead up to one good episode or a few great scenes. as dumb as the Cuddy/House relationship storyline was, the one where House basically hallucinates he's on different TV shows was pretty brilliant

I think this season has been mildly more interesting than the previous couple, despite Charlene Yi's character being pretty annoying. I'm expecting the finale to ratchet up the misery even more.

SPOLIERS (if you haven't seen the last episode) SPOILERS

I was starting to cringe at the sentimental scene in the cafeteria and was about to get on a "oh come on, fuck this show" thing, but thankfully the "twist" stayed true to House's character.

That was hardly a "twist" - he pulled the same stunt like, 3 episodes before that

The female characters since Cameron have pretty much all been bad (well, 13 was pretty okay), but what the hell is Yi even doing on this show?? I just really dislike the tone of her voice. At least her character is more interesting than Adams (requisite hot doctor who serves no purpose whatsoever)

well. maybe i already posted that

Well I just used "twist" to avoid being too spoilery, "reveal" was probably more accurate.

So anyway it ended.

the last minute was good. right after the terrible montage.

Did anything think for even one second the producers of this show would actually end it with him dying? Because I sure didn't. But I'm sure glad they avoided doing anything interesting so they could stunt-cast Kal Penn and Jennifer Morrison and what's-her-face and the other what's-her-face.

House could never be anything other than a jerk. He figured out he had to quit being House.

no lisa edelstein which is really... i mean, c'mon, i know she left with some harsh feelings but they couldn't get her back for the LAST EPISODE EVER? srsly now???

;_;

I was wondering where she was

First 45 minutes were boring, but overall I kinda liked the way the series ended. Though it was definitely on the high end of the "how the hell could he have accomplished all that" scale. It did go nicely against the "everybody changes" theme in the beginning of the show. Also I realize now why they had him get into legal trouble for flushing tickets (no aspect of which made sense) instead of trying to kill a patient, as this way he could get someone to take the fall for him.

Also Camerson trying to convince House to commit suicide was pretty creepy and amazing (the other cameros sucked though)

I was happy to see Kal Penn, if only in shadow.